Senior Test and Assurance Engineer (Verification and Validation) for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Den Haag; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hague-based multinational defence organisation is seeking an independent assurance professional to verify and validate delivered projects, systems and programmes, and reporting on them at executive level. Mostly on-site, with flexibility to work from home.

You would join the product and service assurance team, confirming conformance, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to drive acceptance and continuous improvement across complex deliveries.

Qualifications

• Five years planning and executing test, verification and validation on large projects.
• Testing systems for function, load, and interoperability across environments.
• Experience leading testers, engineers or developers.
• Ability to read system documentation and reason about hardware/software designs.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organise and run formal reviews and assessments across complex domains and supply chain.
• Appraise work against standards and identify non-conformities; determine causes.
• Produce test documentation—plans, cases, traceability, reports.
• Assure artefacts and maintain traceability matrices.
• Manage design, planning, execution and reporting of verification and validation events.
• Support projects delivered by external contractors.
• Support operational community through acceptance activities.

Skills

Test planning

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Communication skills

Architectural literacy

Cloud testing

Tools

Defect tracking tools

Test management tools

Traceability matrices

Job description

Assurance is only worth having when it is independent. This post is the independent half.

You would join the product and service assurance team of a multinational defence organisation in The Hague, Netherlands — verifying and validating delivered projects, systems, services and programmes, and reporting on them at executive level. Mostly on-site, with flexibility to work from home.

What You Would Be Doing

• Planning, organising and running formal reviews and assessments across complex and cross-functional domains, and along the supply chain
• Appraising work against the organisation's standards, identifying where it does not comply, and working out why
• Producing the test documentation — event test plans, test cases, traceability matrices, reports
• Assuring other people's test artefacts, the traceability matrix above all
• Managing the design, planning, execution and reporting of verification and validation events
• Supporting projects delivered by external contractors
• Supporting the operational community through acceptance activities

What you would bring

• At least five years, recently, planning and executing test, verification and validation on large and complex projects
• At least five years testing systems and products for function, behaviour under load, and interoperability with everything around them
• Proven management of external stakeholders and colleagues through a large delivery
• Enough architectural literacy to reason about the hardware and software designs you find in system documentation
• Communication that is clear, coherent and concise, written and spoken
• Experience leading a team of testers, quality engineers or developers
• Testing in virtualised and cloud environments
• The usual test, defect and requirements management tooling
• Independent testing where the testing itself is done by someone else

Nice to have

• An advanced testing or test-management certification
• Testing in a defence or military business domain, and interoperability testing in that context
• Assurance tools and processes

Why this one is worth a look

You would sit outside the delivery teams and report upwards, which is the only position from which assurance work actually changes anything.